Case Study: Israel

Jewish Diaspora Forced migrations or enslavement of

Jewish people after the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman conquests of the Jewish Kingdom

Used mostly to refer to enslavement and exile after Jewish revolt in 70 C.E.

Jews set up communities across the Middle East and in the Roman Empire, later in Europe and Russia

ZionismNationalist Jewish political

movementSupports self-determination and

creation of Jewish homeland

Balfour Declaration Formal statement of policy by the British

government that said, "His Majesty's government view with

favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object”

Mandate System

The White Paper Idea of partitioning Palestine Mandate

abandoned Favored creation of independent

Palestine governed by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in the population by 1949

Limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants from 1940 - 1944

Emigration Genocide of 6 million European Jews during

WWII Before and during the war the United

States did not lift restrictive immigration policies

After the war Jews were interred on Cyprus SS Exodus

1956 Suez CrisisFranceUnited Kingdom

Israel

Egypt

1956 Suez Crisis Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal France and the United Kingdom invade

Egypt with Israeli help Political and economic pressure force

France and the United Kingdom to withdraw UNEF Force in Sinai Anglo-French relations damaged

Pan-Arabism

Six Day War 1967Israel Egypt

JordanSyria

Six Day War

Outcomes

Yom Kippur WarAlso known as 4th Arab-Israeli War In 1973, Israel was invaded by

Syria and Egypt on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur

The United States resupplied Israel and the Soviet Union resupplied Egypt and Syria

Camp David AccordsPeace agreement signed in 1978,

between Egypt and Israel, brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter

Egypt recognized Israel as a country

Israel gave back Sinai to Egypt

Oslo Accords Agreement between the Palestinian Liberation

Organization and Israel signed in 1993 Granted Palestinians right to self government

in Gaza Strip and city of Jericho in the West Bank

Created Palestinian Authority (Yasser Arafat appointed president)

PLO recognized Israel